Romance, adventure, business, and scientific research are combined m the plans of the expedition which Mr C. Lockart Cottle, of Liverpool, is taking to the Eastern Archipelago. In a email shallow-draft schooner he leaves Falmouth about the end of this month for Sumatra and Borneo. It is hoped tp make extensive collections of wild animal and bird life for museums and zoological gardens; tha kinematograph operator will make film studies, now and rare varieties of orchids will bo searched for, and attention will be given to the commercial possibilities of the oil nuts of the primeval forests, the equipment including laboratory apparatus for making tests on tha spot. The expedition will have a personnel of eleven.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17293, 3 November 1921, Page 11
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